Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 13

• There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Greater

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.417, Penguin

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Family, Crazy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wasting Time, Remember, Resurrection

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• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Real, Political

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

  Tayeb Salih

  Book, Heart, Hands

  Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.5, Heinemann

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• Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Graduation, Encouraging, Dream

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• Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Throat, Wells

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)”, p.83, Random House

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

  Christian Furchtegott Gellert

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

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• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Imagination Creativity, Imagination And Reality

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

  Che Guevara

  Life, Death, Courage

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 36, 2005.

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Educational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Failure

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

  Paul Valery

  Change, Positive, Growth

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Real, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

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